KenH
Well-Known Member
THE ACCOUNTING
Just as Christ was never tainted by sin in his person, no man has ever been righteous in the flesh.
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
The satisfaction that Christ accomplished in his obedience unto death was a matter of his being charged with and bearing the sins of every elect sinner he represented. While he suffered the just penalty of God's broken law, he remained holy and undefiled. No lesser sacrifice could ever establish a just ground whereby God could be just and yet justify ungodly sinners. The Lamb had to be without spot, or blemish and he was, even to the death of the cross. He was never a sinner in any measure in his person, yet he drank damnation dry and bore every sin of every sinner he represented in the eternal covenant of grace.
Likewise, no man has ever been righteous in this flesh. The only righteousness that is acceptable to God is an eternal righteousness that none of us can produce. This righteousness must be without spot or blemish, eternally.
How then can sinners, possibly possess this righteousness in which God himself cannot find a flaw? It is only through the glorious grace of God, who imputed, or charged the established righteousness of Christ to every sinner he represented in his obedience unto death. God has accounted them the righteousness of God in Christ, while yet being sinners according to the flesh.
The glorious truth of imputation, whereby Christ was charged with the sins of his elect, and they are charged with the totality of his righteousness is a stone of stumbling for many. However, this is the only just ground whereby God can be both a just God and a Saviour. Anything less than this leaves us with an unfit sacrifice, or an unfit righteousness. Praise God, in Christ his sheep have neither, for they are by the decree of Almighty God, the righteousness of God in him.
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
- by Kenny Dyess
Just as Christ was never tainted by sin in his person, no man has ever been righteous in the flesh.
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
The satisfaction that Christ accomplished in his obedience unto death was a matter of his being charged with and bearing the sins of every elect sinner he represented. While he suffered the just penalty of God's broken law, he remained holy and undefiled. No lesser sacrifice could ever establish a just ground whereby God could be just and yet justify ungodly sinners. The Lamb had to be without spot, or blemish and he was, even to the death of the cross. He was never a sinner in any measure in his person, yet he drank damnation dry and bore every sin of every sinner he represented in the eternal covenant of grace.
Likewise, no man has ever been righteous in this flesh. The only righteousness that is acceptable to God is an eternal righteousness that none of us can produce. This righteousness must be without spot or blemish, eternally.
How then can sinners, possibly possess this righteousness in which God himself cannot find a flaw? It is only through the glorious grace of God, who imputed, or charged the established righteousness of Christ to every sinner he represented in his obedience unto death. God has accounted them the righteousness of God in Christ, while yet being sinners according to the flesh.
The glorious truth of imputation, whereby Christ was charged with the sins of his elect, and they are charged with the totality of his righteousness is a stone of stumbling for many. However, this is the only just ground whereby God can be both a just God and a Saviour. Anything less than this leaves us with an unfit sacrifice, or an unfit righteousness. Praise God, in Christ his sheep have neither, for they are by the decree of Almighty God, the righteousness of God in him.
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
- by Kenny Dyess